WATERCOLOR UNLEASHED! – MOUNTAIN STREAM

WATERCOLOR UNLEASHED! – MOUNTAIN STREAM

Adult Online Art | Available

All Levels
4/1/2025-4/29/2025
1:00 PM-4:00 PM on Tue
$295.00

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WATERCOLOR UNLEASHED! – MOUNTAIN STREAM

Adult Online Art | Available

Online on Zoom | 5 Tuesdays | 1pm-4pm Arizona Time (always on Mountain Standard Time) | recording available for 2 months
April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 2025

Learn how to make water look wet, and splashy! With a stunning waterfall or intimate creek as your model, study water in motion in a woodsy setting.

Reference photos will be supplied, or you may use your own. Please NOTE that photos and other supplemental class documents will be shared with you electronically – you are responsible for printing them out or putting into an electronic tablet to view while painting from them.

Lessons will focus on:

·         Water movement – the “anatomy” of a waterfall

·         “Painterly Realism” a loose approach – working towards the “mindset” of plein air painting - rather than “copying” a photo

·         Composition and Drawing

·         Color theory, simplified – using “color as value” (as seen in all three North Light books plus magazine articles) - color mixing

·         Negative painting lessons and exercises for the watercolorist

There will be demos, instruction at all levels, with critique. Class time will be structured, yet open enough to accommodate the artistic spirit within us all. All levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. The only prerequisite is an attitude of joy in the act of painting!

Pollard, Julie Gilbert
Julie Gilbert Pollard

Julie Gilbert Pollard paints in oil and watercolor in a fluid, painterly manner. Her painting style, while representational, is colored with her own personal concept of reality. "The eye may see as a camera 'sees', but the mind's eye sees an altered, imagined image, what it wants and hopes to see. It's that illusive image uniquely mine, along with a heightened sense of 'realness' that I try to express in my paintings. This world of ours is often a frightening and mysterious place, but it is filled with scenes and subjects that excite my eye and imagination! The magical allure of the natural world, and my reverence for it, compel me to attempt to capture its essense on canvas or paper."